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Show went into effect. The matter was discussed dis-cussed at length by those who favored favor-ed the two district plan, and byothers who favored other plans. The bebate developed the fact that according to the state attorney general's ruling, no one common diatriot could withdraw from all the districts to be formed unless un-less it bad been maintainimg a high school, and that every high school district formed must establish and maintain a high school-Two school-Two formal protests were received, one from Ephraim and the other from Spring City , each asking that the two district recommendation be not followed. fol-lowed. Ephraim asked for a district composed of itself and Spring City, and Spring City aaked for a district composee of itself, Ephraim, Chester and Wales. Moroni presented a petition peti-tion asking for a distriat to be formed of itself, Fountain Green, Wales, Chester and Meadowville. The bigest talk of the day oame late in the evening, It was over the proposition pro-position to set ttside Ephraim- and Spring City in a diatriot by themselves. them-selves. Senator- L, M. Olson of Ephraim Eph-raim and Judge Jacob Johnson of Spring City were for the idea aud Pres. 0. N. Lund of Mount Pleasant was against it, It was a running fire of argument and question and answer and kept the big crowd keyed up to a high pitch, of excitement for a ooup leof hours.. After ail hands hd talked themselves them-selves out on the subject the argument argu-ment covered every phase of the question at issue and was treated from every possible angle--the deoision of the commissioners was reserved until a later date, after they had consider ed the question to their satisfaction. Pyramid. ! Sanpete Is a Two , District County. The board of oounty commissioners of Sanpete county, at its regular session ses-sion held on Monday of this week, divided tha oounty into two high school districts, one, to be named the North Sanpete diatriot, to include Spring City, Chester and all districts north, and the other, to be called the South Sanpete district to include all districts south of the districts named above. The day's proceedings were of unusual un-usual interest. The commissioners turned the meeting over to the school men and others present, and eat back in their chairs ready to enjoy whatev-er whatev-er argument, debate or dispute that might be dished, up for their benefit. They constituted ths jury, sitting in I judgment on one cf the most important impor-tant cases ever before the people of the county. The.de bate was somewhat informal, always lively, sharp and to the- point, and occasionally tinged with just a bit of animosity born of jealousy that for almost countless ages has rent assunder the ties of neighborly friendliness friend-liness that ought to but does not exist ex-ist between one certain community in the couuty and most of its fellows. State Supt. A. C. Nelson was present pres-ent at the urgent request of many prominent educators of the county. He give his viewa at the opening of the debate. He stated plainly that in his opinion the county should be divided di-vided into two districts as the county superintendent had recommended, as more than two in bis judgement, would be fatal to the entire success of the move, In the event that the-commissioners could not see their way clear to dividing the county into two distriots, his opinion waa it should remaia as one, as the law was when it |